Monthly Highlights -

January

• National Braille Literacy Month
• National Hobby Month
• Hot Tea Month
• National Soup Month

Week Celebrations:
2nd Week Letter Writing Week
January 2013 Daily Holidays, Special and Wacky Days:
1 New Year's Day
18 Thesaurus Day
18 Winnie the Pooh Day -The Birthday of Winnie's author A.A. Milne
19 National Popcorn Day
20 Inauguration Day
21 Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday , celebrated on the third Monday
23 National Handwriting Day
29 National Puzzle Day
31 Backward Day
31 Inspire Your Heart with Art Day

December

1st World AIDS Day
Universal Human Rights Month
6 - St. Nicholas Day (International)
7 - Pearl Harbor Day (United States)
8 - Bodhi Day - Buddha's Enlightenment (Buddhist)
8 - Feast of the Immaculate Conception
8-16 - Hanukkah* (Jewish)
12 - Virgin of Guadalupe (Mexico)
13 - Santa Lucia Day (Sweden)
16-25 - Las Posadas (Mexico)
22 - Winter Solstice (Dec 22-Mar 20)
25 - Christmas (Christian, Roman Catholic, International)
26 - Boxing Day (Canada, United Kingdom)
26 - Kwanzaa (African-American)
31 - New Year's Eve (United States, International)

November

Native American Heritage Month
National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian magazine
Links for education
November 3 -- National Sandwich Day
November 4 -- Daylight Savings Ends
November 6 -- Election Day
November 12--Ellis Island closed
November 13--Diwali Begins
Robert Louis Stevenson birthday
November 19--Lincoln’s Gettysburg address
November 22--Thanksgiving
November 29--C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L’Engle, Louisa May Alcott birthdays
November 30--Mark Twan’s birthday

October

Bully Prevention Month
Banned Books Week Sept. 30 - Oct 6
Fire Prevention Week – Oct 7-13
Teen Read Week – Oct 14-20 “It Came from the Library!” Phantom of the Opera!
October 2 --Peanuts comic strip First Published in 1950.
October 4 -- Buster Keaton, birthday (1895), comedian
October 8 -- Columbus Day
Indigenous People’s Day -- Second Monday in October.
October 16 -- Dictionary Day
Boss’s Day
October 20 --Bela Lugosi’s birthday
October 21 -- Guggenheim Museum of modern and contemporary art
opened in New York City (1959.0
October 27 -- Dylan Thomas, poet, birthday (1914)
October 28 -- Statue of Liberty’s birthday
Bill Gates, birthday, Microsoft executive, multi-multi billionaire
October 31 -- Halloween

September - Library Card Sign-up Month

September 3 -- Labor Day
September 11 -- Patriot Day (9-11 Memorial)
September 13 -- Liberty Medal Ceremony
September 14 -- Star Spangled Banner written (1814)
Groundbreaking Ceremony for the UN Headquarters (1948)
September 15 -- International Day of Democracy
September 16 -- Rosh Hashanah
September 17 -- Constitution Day
September 21 -- International Day of Peace
Sandra Day O'Connor (1981), 1st Female Supreme Court Justice
September 22 -- US Postmaster General Established (1789)
Emancipation Proclamation (1862), 150th Anniversary (2012)
September 25 -- First American Newspaper Published (1690)
Yom Kippur Begins
September 26 -- Yom Kippur Ends
September 27 -- Google Started (1998)